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On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 23:20 +0300, Panagiotis Christopoulos wrote: |
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> Yes, I can do that. But the real question here, from my perspective, is |
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> why we need /run, /var/run or /tmp on tmpfs. "Other distros do it" is |
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> not an answer. |
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The main reason is that you want /run to be writable super early in the |
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boot process, before even / has been fscked and re-mounted. That means |
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you can do stuff like starting udevd in parallel with fsck of / which |
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means faster boot. This is one of the things required to get 1 second |
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boot. |
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See http://lwn.net/Articles/436012/ |
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Olivier Crête |
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tester@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer |
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